Regional simulations of the Faroe Bank Channel overflow using a σ-coordinate ocean model

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 35, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 31-44

  Seim, K S ^a   Fer, I ^b,c   Berntsen, J ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

level model; Dense overflow; Entrainment and mixing; Gravity current

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT INTERFACES; DIFFUSIVITIES; DISSIPATION RATES; EDDY DIFFUSIVITIES; FAROE BANK CHANNEL; FINE RESOLUTION; GRAVITY CURRENTS; INERTIAL OSCILLATION; INTERFACIAL LAYER; INTERNAL WAVES; LEVEL MODEL; MODEL RESULTS; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEAN MODEL; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; OSCILLATION PERIODS; SEA BED; SECOND ORDERS; SHEAR-INDUCED MIXING; TURBULENCE CLOSURES; TURBULENT DISSIPATION RATES; VERTICAL STRUCTURES; VOLUME FLUX;

GRAVITATION; GRAVITY WAVES; MIXING; OCEAN CURRENTS; TURBULENCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

BOUNDARY LAYER; BREAKING WAVE; DEEP WATER VENTILATION; DENSE WATER; DISSIPATION; EDDY; ENTRAINMENT; HYDROGRAPHY; INTERMEDIATE WATER; INTERNAL WAVE; TURBULENCE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; FAROE BANK CHANNEL; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 77955421573     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2010.06.002     Document Type: Article

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